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I've you've got an extra computer hanging around somewheres, I'd give IPCop a shot. I've been using it for both my home network, and my servers, and it works great, even on old hardware, and has a lot of great things, Snort for IDS, squid, etc.

Other wise, I'm afraid I can't be much help, since it's been awhile since I've used Windows for a desktop. I have used Outpost firewall, and liked it, and there is both a "Free" and "Pro" version.

Hmmmm.... well, haven't tried out many of them personally. however What about the hardware firewall? Do they cost a lot and how much can we modify them? Actually, i think that id the firewall is hardware based, there might not be too much customizable.

Hmmmm.... well, haven't tried out many of them personally. however What about the hardware firewall? Do they cost a lot and how much can we modify them? Actually, i think that id the firewall is hardware based, there might not be too much customizable.

And what about the firewalls that could run on the Linux?

You can turn an old machine with two NIC cards, a floppy disk drive (and disk) with no hard drive into a "hardware" firewall. There are a bunch of different ways to strip down Linux to make it work. Here's one example:

You can turn an old machine with two NIC cards, a floppy disk drive (and disk) with no hard drive into a "hardware" firewall.

You would also be ill-advised to attempt to do so. Floppies are way too unreliable to be used in this fashion (the drives are generally OK, it is the media that lets them down). You would be better off with a USB or a small hard drive.

This would be particularly true if you want to handle logging on the firewall box itself? You can only get so much onto 1.44Mb.